You can tow it with a car

When I was a kid in the 50s my uncle had a TT he pulled with a Cadillac convertble even in the Sierras and nobody thought it was unsafe. I don't know how heavy it was but I think it was about 20 feet long and would sleep 4 didn't look light. This was not unusual there were a lot on the roads. Also lived in Europe and saw smaller cars pulling resaonable sized TT. On the ranch I grew up on we put all the bales on a half ton pickup we could and today it would be considered way overloaded. Times have changed.

Sorry, but I do not believe there is any car sold in America (vans and SUVs excluded) that's rated to tow 4,000 pounds.

Terryallen, thanks for the memories.

I've owned three pickups in my 50+ years driving; a1972, 1978, and 2012 (see sig). The 2012 is a real monster and technological marvel when compared to my earlier trucks. Started driving my dad's '59 F-100 back then on the farm and never had any hesitation to fill it with feed and grain. Didn't have power steering ( or any other of todays truck options)....didn't need it as the heavy loads lifted the front end and then you could steer it with your pinky finger!

That all said, todays RV's are monsters as well when compared to "back in the days" rigs.

I sometimes wonder, where/when will this demand for bigger, heavier, longer trucks/rv's begin to level off?

I love my truck though!

Dtaylor wrote:

2012Coleman wrote:
Open your minds.

people get locked into one mindset because "that's the way we have always done it". Let's not confuse them with facts. ( wonder if I will take a beating for saying so)

Yup, I see this is Germany all the time, cars towing. They are usually powerful diesels. Heck, just take a look at YouTube on European Caravans. Not everyone needs a F350 to pull.

What!!! No toy haulers. :B

I towed my Starcraft RT Series 4200LB OFF-ROAD POPUP camper once with my 99JEEP much like this photo from google. I made it ok to where i was going but I could tell I was not matched up good.

I had already replace my rear end once pulling boats with my same Jeep.

Back in the day we use JEEPS all the time pulling smaller utility type trailer all over the high country of ARIZ without problems much like this google photo


I think I will stick with my F150 size truck towing my off-road trailers. Then when I finish up my AUSSIE WARWAGON lookalike with my 12-foot box OFF-ROAD POPUP TRAILER with lots of batteries and solar panels then I won't have any worries.


Roy Ken

RobertRyan wrote:
Not all Australian Touring Caravans weigh 8000lb, there are lightweight single axle models, like this 4,200lb , 22ft version that can be easily towed by a car.

I like the interior of this trailer. I had a 69 Lincoln with a 429 CI motor that could tow a very large trailer with the proper hitch.

Thing is. Many on the forum are either too young, or too new at towing to remember how it was done BEFORE trucks were both popular, and as comfortable as today. My FIL towed 26' TTs with a 67 Chevelle. We didn't think we had to have a truck to tow a trailer. We just did it with what we had. We thought nothing of piling the family in the car hooking up and going anywhere we wanted. The big V8 under the hood would get us there. Also remember those cars were RWD.

Remember back in the day. Pickup trucks were just that, Trucks. They were reg cab, 3 passenger at the most, No AC, no radio, NONE of the accessories you see in them today. The best option they had was a sliding back window. you couldn't take your family along, unless you put a cover on the back, and had the kids ride back there. I doubt many of the folks on this forum would drive one as todays trucks are more like cars, and we are pretty spoiled to the options they have. How many of you would like to go cross country with no AC, and no radio. And have the family follow in a car? Not me.

So folks used their cars, station wagons and such to tow their boats, and RVs. AND the brake controllers were manually operated. His had a big lever sticking out the front so that he could activate the TT brakes with his knee.

So yeah, A max load, 4500lb TT can be easily towed with a RWD, V8. sedan.

2012Coleman wrote:
Open your minds.

people get locked into one mindset because "that's the way we have always done it". Let's not confuse them with facts. ( wonder if I will take a beating for saying so)

RobertRyan wrote:
This is about as slow anyone gets(no matter what the tow vehicle) going up a steepish incline.Any slower and you would be holding up traffic.
Caravan being towed up steepish incline.

That guy is on the wrong side of the road! ;)